Literary Happenings: Sci fi, mystery and murder in Revis trilogy

Amy, the daughter of a military specialist and a genetic scientist, is a teen who enjoys school, her boyfriend and running outdoors. But she gives it all up to be cryofrozen and shot into space so she can join her parents and colonize Centauri-Earth 300 years in the future.

Elder, raised entirely aboard the spaceship "Godspeed," has been groomed from birth to take over from Eldest in the hierarchy that governs every aspect of their planetless society. Eager to prove himself, Elder makes choices that not only impact his life but change the very course of his ship.

Like shooting stars, the worlds of both collide in "Across the Universe" and "A Million Suns," the first two titles in a trilogy by Beth Revis that will be complete when "Shades of Earth" is released in January 2013. Told in alternating chapters, Revis' books send readers on a journey through space that reveals lies told by those closest to both teens, explores the essence of human community and offers up a murder mystery that must be solved if anyone aboard "Godspeed" is to survive.